Had you told me that I would feature a song that sampled Marky Mark and The Funky Bunch's Good Vibration , I wouldn't have believed you. Nothing against Mark Wahlbarg but I would have ranked that right up there with featuring Britney Spears and NKOTB as things that were more unlikely than the world ending in 2012. But I've found a good reason to feature such a song. Matt Clarke's Good Vibration is that reason. Matt's a 21 year old emcee from Massachusetts. He takes DJ Doubletake's production and delivers a solid three plus [...]
Friday Five : \ˈfrī-(ˌ)dā,-dē ˈfīv\ : On the sixth day of every week I hit the shuffle button on my iTunes and share my five and drop a little knowledge and insight for each track. Sometimes there is a playlist involved, sometimes there isn't. Sometimes we have guest, but most of the time it's just me. The rest is up to you, our friends and readers! Fire up your media player of choice and share the first five random track of your shuffle in the comments. Editor's Note: My tryptophan-addled brain [...]
i could really do with another summer of 1992. gcse exams finished early, by june i had three months in which to do exactly nothing. so, i sunbathed, wandered around with my friends and watched mtv. a lot. having cable was still a novelty, and watching a channel broadcast from another continent was fun. the vjs spoke in broken english, the adverts were a long way from aquafresh and hovis. i hold mtv europe squarely responsible for the success of acts such as culture beat and ace of base. there were other, weirder [...]
Really, I just don't. Download: MP3: House of Pain-"Jump Around" MP3: Marky Funk & The Funky Bunch-"Good Vibrations"
Well heck. Here it is Monday night. In addition to the time change creeping up on me, apparently I am also going to forget what day it is and therefore not put the finishing touches on the Monday Music Roundup. Which is now looking like a Tuesday Music Roundup. Terrific! Jesse Malin 's cover of the Lou Reed classic "Walk On The Wild Side" surfaced over on the Times UK site today for free download. It's from his upcoming album of covers, On Your Sleeve [...]
Last week I posted a song from Crystal Castles and their label man told me to take it down because "'through the hosiery' is not a good representation of the band, it's a demo from 20033 and "it shouldn't be a song given to new listeners." 1 This left me confused, so I consulted with the best record promoter I know, Alisha. I was comforted that she agreed that old music is old music and new music is new music and that people could post whatever they wanted (and I told her I'd dedicate a [...]
So here I go traipsing perilously into US Magazine territory, but bear with me, there's good music herewith. AOL Spinner blog posted a slideshow the other day of the 20+ musicians that Winona Ryder has been romantically linked to over the years . Quite unfathomable -- it reads like the most-played list on my iPod [er, no pun intended]. Amongst the mostly-vicious comments on the original post was this laughable one: " She dated MICHAEL NESMITH? UGH. If you're planning to date a Monkee, then choose Mickey Dolenz because at least he [...]
This is a free crash course in music education from the last 40 years, courtesy of Gregg Gillis, aka Girl Talk . It goes by really, really fast. My blogger pal Bruce (of Some Velvet Blog hotness fame) came up with an idea to do a massive joint post of all the songs from the ADD-inducing, mile-a-minute mashup disc Night Ripper ( previous post ), which uses over a hundred original songs to make the 42 minutes of party goodness on this album. We both [...]
1146 miles
IckMusic
dirty martini
The Passion of the Weiss
I AM FUEL, YOU ARE FRIENDS
Apparently
I’ll Just Leave This Here #161
BAND OF HORSES – The Funeral (Sound Remedy Remix)
K-Holes - "Frozen Stiff"
Taste And Try Before You Buy
Angger Dimas – Ribon Dooh (Preview)
